Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] her long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine .
2 Kathy came downstairs with her long hair in what Helen called " the Gretchen style " : two plaits pinned neatly on top of her head .
3 Frances Earnshaw visited her often , bringing her pretty dresses to wear , and persuading her to take care of her appearance , so that when she finally came home after her long absence , she almost seemed a different person .
4 When she came back in her long nightdress Maxim was in the bed by the window bare-shouldered and riffling through a handful of motel pamphlets .
5 He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith .
6 ‘ The sheets had been pulled down over her long legs .
7 Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh .
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